Are you still here? I knew you would be! This is the page where you will get an insiders taste of my views!
I have a blog located at http://www.wandasway.blogspot.com, and will also share the posts with you here. Since this site is all about Wait for Love: A Black Girl's Story, I'll begin by posting some reader reviews. Check back weekly, okay that's a stretch, monthly, to find out what's happening on Wanda's Way!
Wait! Before you get all up into the reviews, I have good news! I will have a story included in the February 2008 release of Zane's Chocolate Flava 2 AND a story in the May 2008 release of Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2!
 Couldn't put it down, December 29, 2006
Wanda D. Hudson has penned a phenomenal novel. It was hard to believe this was her "debut," she writes like a seasoned literary veteran. Her main character Lynnde had me laughing, crying, shaking my head and wanting her to "Wait for Love." I literally couldn't put this book down until I was done. This is a must read! Get your copy today!
Erica Martin
Author of Straight with no Chaser
Worth The Wait, May 10, 2006
Lynette Lee has been a fool for a man ever since she started dating. Unfortunately being a fool has cost Lynette more than any woman should have to pay. So why does Lynette keep dating loser after loser only to learn the same lesson over and over again? Join Wanda Hudson in Wait for Love, A Black Girl's Story and explore the mind of a woman desperately seeking love.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Wait for Love, Hudson's debut novel. This is a must read for every woman that has ever sought love, or known someone that has sought love in the wrong place. Although Hudson tackled some serious and very real issues facing African American women in our society today, she managed to keep her readers laughing while doing so. Whether you laugh with Lynette, get mad at Lynette, or cry with Lynette, you will keep turning pages as you wait on her to find love.
T. RHYTHM KNIGHT
APOOO BookClub
Reviewed By: Eleanor S. Shields, BWM Fiction Reviewer
This novel is a chronological diary of sorts. It tells a story in the life of Lynette Donna Lee. Lynette or Lynde as she is affectionately called starts her story as a graduating high school senior who is eager to get out of her parents’ house and away from her father. She decides to go away to flight school to become an attendant.
What Lynde realizes just before she leaves, is that home may not be so bad. She is not eager to leave her mother and definitely not Esta, her best friend in the whole world. Esta and Lynde have been friends since a young age, but they are more than that, they are sisters in every meaning of the word.
Lynde leaves to begin her journey in Florida where she meets and falls head over heels for this older gentleman. This being her first experience with a man leaves her vulnerable to his smooth lines and sweet gestures. Unfortunately for her, lines and gestures are just what they are and when she discovers the truth she is left heart broken. As a matter of fact, the whole situation leaves her entire being broken.
That is just the beginning of a long string of broken hearts for Lynde and while you take this journey with her, you discover what a broken heart at a young age can really do to a person. It not only hurts emotionally but as you see with Lynde, it hurts physically and permanently.
This story was one that I found in the beginning to be a little slow to get into, however once you start reading, you become absorbed into the story itself. You find yourself waiting to see what will happen next and yelling at the pages and asking can’t you see what he is about?
As a debut novel, Ms. Hudson has done an outstanding job with catching the reader and keeping them engrossed in the story. I found the characters to be very well rounded and realistic. So much so, that at times, I asked myself if these people were really characters or if she just changed the names, LOL.
As a reviewer, I take my hat off to this author, because I read tons and tons of characters and this is probably the first time that I have wondered if this was live or Memorex (in other words, a true story).
Bravo Ms. Hudson, Bravo.
 A Search for Self, August 9, 2006
As a young girl, Lynnde felt love and admiration from her parents, but as she grew into adolescence and adulthood, she gained weight, and the love and admiration turned to absolute loathing from her father. This fact, along with many others, pushes Lynnde into the arms and beds of several men who have their way with her. She is physically, mentally and emotionally abused but keeps going back for more, all in the name of love.
WAIT FOR LOVE: A Black Girl's Story by Wanda D. Hudson is a look into Lynnde's search for love and marriage. In her corner is her mother and her best friend; each implores the notion to just wait for love. In her quest and impatience she comes into contact with some of the most derelict individuals the world has to offer. Accepting their behavior only forces Lynnde deeper into despair and into their emotional games. We travel with her through each of the relationships, which are graphic and the conditions deplorable. No two were the same but the results were always catastrophic.
What makes this book unique is the fact the main character is telling her story directly to the reader; she is having a conversation with us. She, at times is humorous, she tells us to stop laughing, stop rolling our eyes, close our gaped mouths and so much more. It is not until Lynnde decides to love herself first that her conditions begin to change. While reading, it was easy to place blame as to Lynnde's circumstances, but there are no cut and dry answers; her behaviors were really symptomatic of something deeper. The author had an uncanny ability to take readers into the heart of her character by crying, begging, pleading and cheering to Lynnde to move on and out.
Reviewed by Dawn R. Reeves
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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Patience, Patience, and more patience, October 7, 2006
Why wait for love? This is the question that Lynnde Lee asks through out the book. Wait for Love is entertaining, hilarious, and heartbreaking. As Lynnde searches for love in all the wrong places she continues to keep giving up more and more of herself, until she does not reconize who or what she has become. Her best friend Esta is always telling her to wait for love to find her and not to go looking for love. Wait for Love also shows the physical, mental and emotional abuse Lynnde suffered all in the name of love. The author Wanda Hudson makes the reader feel that she and Lynnde and having a girl to girl conversation throughout the book. This book is a very easy read. After each relationship I found myself telling Lynnde to Wait for Love. |
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